W's Avatar

W

@redheadtalking.bsky.social

Academic librarian interested in history, prison abolition, prisoner justice, critical librarianship, labour, surveillance/privacy, anti-racism, fat liberation, gender, and sewing.

215 Followers  |  355 Following  |  23 Posts  |  Joined: 31.08.2023  |  2.2808

Latest posts by redheadtalking.bsky.social on Bluesky


So apparently they are doing a watch party for the game, but didn't send an email to the campus community. In the words of Ilya Rozanov:

19.02.2026 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I know there are more important things in the world to be upset about, and I am! But this is just such an easy and obvious thing to do. Women's hockey is extremely popular! But misogyny is so ingrained.

19.02.2026 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Last week @utsc.utoronto.ca planned viewing parties in the staff and faculty lounge with snacks and drinks for 2 of the Canada men's hockey games. Today the Canada women's team is playing in the Gold Medal game and CRICKETS. I even sent 2 emails asking for them to do it, but got no reply. Just wow!

19.02.2026 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Those are the three getting all the media attention but there’s also:

- GardaWorld (horrible company all around)
- JSI Telecom
- Thomson Reuters
- Magnet Forensics
- ICOR Technology Inc
- CGI Inc

29.01.2026 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Health Canada the latest federal department to issue layoff notices

Health Canada the latest federal department to issue layoff notices

CTV News
January 23, 2026
By Josh Pringle

stillcoviding.ca/en/news/heal...

#CdnPoli #health #BudgetCuts #Ottawa

30.01.2026 03:25 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

ICE field offices are all over Canada. Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Montreal and Vancouver.

ICE is using armoured vehicles manufactured in Brampton.

Canadian company Hootsuite is providing services to ICE.

Jim Patterson is selling property to ICE for a detention centre.

www.ice.gov/field-office...

29.01.2026 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 7
Post image

He's there because he's a right-wing Trxmp wannabe piece of shit. Hollywood should be shunning him, not casting him in movies and bantering at awards shows with him.

30.01.2026 04:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Once you understand that you're dealing with murderous liars, you stop entertaining what they say as possibly credible and legitimate. The fight against them is about stopping them from terrorizing and killing by any means, not winning debates about your reality versus theirs.

08.01.2026 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2706    πŸ” 907    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 44

I want people to realize prosecuting the police is always a long shot and even when successful that it hasn’t produced any observable change in behavior from the police in general.

07.01.2026 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1338    πŸ” 294    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 34
Preview
Your Syllabus and Academic Freedom Making an affirmative case for the values that underpin our work.

Worried about increased surveillance of syllabi & course curricula at your institution?

Check out these resources from the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom to integrate in your course, such as language for academic freedom to put in your syllabus, a teaching module, and a reading list.

07.01.2026 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4

Anyone who has read Copaganda knows that we are in the crucial early moments of virality after an extra-judicial police murder. It's extremely important for ICE that the media plays along with the idea that what happened is contested and there are multiple perspectives.

07.01.2026 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1636    πŸ” 559    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 32
Post image

I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.

24.11.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1911    πŸ” 216    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 89
Preview
How U.S. Universities Used Counterterror Fusion Centers to Surveil Student Protests for Palestine Internal university communications reveal how a network established for post-9/11 intelligence sharing was turned on students protesting genocide.

Internal university communications reveal how a network established for post-9/11 intelligence sharing was turned on students protesting genocide.

21.11.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 241    πŸ” 98    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 7
Preview
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

Links:

apnews.com/article/immi...

www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/bor...

thehill.com/homenews/adm...

21.11.2025 05:46 β€” πŸ‘ 675    πŸ” 268    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 15

If you want a sense of how far the surveillance state has expanded inside the United States, look at what federal authorities are doing on our highways.

21.11.2025 05:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2260    πŸ” 600    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 61
Preview
Doug Ford Is Trying to Control How Universities Operate | The Local Ontario’s Bill 33 mandates merit-based admissions and gives the province unprecedented power over university and college operations. Is it part of a broader right-wing crackdown on campuses?

As MPPs vote on Bill 33, check out @royinori.bsky.social's analysis of what it would mean for colleges and universities thelocal.to/bill-33-onta...

19.11.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Post image Post image Post image Post image

#OSSTF leaders & delegates joined the @oflabour.bsky.social rally today, marching w/ allies to Queen’s Park, demanding better for Ontario: better schools, better services & better leadership!

Bill 33 passed, but our resolve only strengthened.

β€œWho’s house? OUR house!
Who’s schools? OUR schools!”

19.11.2025 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Classic.

07.11.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Free Palestine πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ
Free Sudan πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡©
Free Congo πŸ‡¨πŸ‡©
Free The Oppressed

06.11.2025 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 94    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Genocide and the Limits of History in Gaza This essay, parts of which were initially delivered at the annual Indigenous art gathering aabaakwad in December 2024 at the University of Toronto, offers three contributions to the historiography ...

My latest article, "Genocide and the Limits of History in Gaza," was just published in the Journal of Palestine Studies www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4MBPN...

05.11.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Shawn Micallef: Doug Ford’s plan to sell off chunks of this popular beach threatens something we should hold dear If Doug Ford wanted to create a real legacy, he’d start an aggressive expansion of public parkland in Ontario to keep up with its massive population.

This weekend I wrote about Doug Ford’s plan to sell off a large chunk of Wasaga Beach Provincial Park. Exactly the opposite of what should be happening: parkland expansion.

02.08.2025 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 265    πŸ” 121    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 18

Sign the letter and go to the rally next Thurs!

20.06.2025 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Peterborough β€˜pauses’ cuts to library staff following immense public backlash: β€˜We are glad that the city came to their senses’ The temporary reversal comes following immense pressure from community members, including an open letter signed Canadian authors and entertainers, such as Margaret Atwood and Neil Young.

Peterborough β€˜pauses’ cuts to library staff following immense public backlash www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

The temporary reversal comes following immense pressure from community members, including an open letter signed Canadian authors and entertainers, such as Margaret Atwood and Neil Young.

18.06.2025 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Protest, Power, and the Violence Debate "We are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating."

@prisonculture.bsky.social and I have been encouraging people to read chapter six of our book, Let This Radicalize You, which deals with the question of "violence" in social movements. We have decided to share the chapter publicly, to offer some context and grounding for the current conversation.

13.06.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1090    πŸ” 610    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 72

β€œIf your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because β€˜violence’ is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo. Conditions that the state characterizes as β€˜peaceful’ are, in reality, quite violent.”

Read more:

13.06.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 234    πŸ” 118    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

You may not have heard about the concept of remigration and Trump’s affinity for it and there’s a reason why:

13.06.2025 11:33 β€” πŸ‘ 526    πŸ” 153    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 5
Preview
Carney’s border bill is a gift to Trumpβ€”and a roadmap to β€˜mass deportation’ ⋆ The Breach Mark Carney promised to stand up to Trump. His new bill continues the two countries’ long-standing pact on restrictive immigration policies

Don’t believe the hype about a breakup between Canada and the U.S. The two countries are moving closer together on an issue they agree on: keeping out refugees.

@desmondcole.bsky.social writes about Mark Carney’s dangerous new border bill. breachmedia.ca/carneys-bord...

13.06.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5

If you work with young people, or will be doing so this summer, join us on June 18th online for a deep dive into abolitionist resources that can take your summer youth programming to the next level! We’ll be walking you through our new compilation resource to use for political education with youth ⬇️

12.06.2025 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Bill C-2 has enormous implications for the privacy of Canadians. Buried toward the end is a law enforcement wish list that includes warrantless disclosure of information about Internet subscribers and unprecedented access to Internet provider networks.
bsky.app/profile/mgei...

04.06.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

@redheadtalking is following 20 prominent accounts